If you are looking for the perfect gift for that special newborn baby, why not consider a knit baby blanket? For many people one of the most enjoyable aspects of the craft is browsing through the many yarns available in a knitting shop.
When it's time to move on to a more difficult stitch, try out the party wrap pattern. Before you start with a pattern as a beginner, you should know the basic stitches including the knit stitch and purl stitch. Knitting teaches you to let go of your aspirations of perfection.
If you are knitting with circular needles, you can start making tubular scarf for this cast around 300 stitches, and join them together in a circle. Yarns need not be dyed; or they may be dyed one color, or a great variety of colors. You should keep some extra yarn while knitting, which will not affect the efficiency.
Thicker yarns generally require thicker knitting needles, whereas thinner yarns may be knit with thick or thin needles. If the fibers are first aligned by combing them, the yarn is smoother and called a worsted; by contrast, if the fibers are carded but not combed, the yarn is fuzzier and called woolen-spun.
You also will usually want to stick with chunky yarns (this is a good use for "novelty" yarns, which have lots of texture and are usually thick but also light and fluffy), since they knit up quickly so you can make more presents. Even if you're a pretty proficient knitter, this isn't the time to learn a new technique or work with a skinny fingering-weight yarn that will take forever to knit up.
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